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title: Next morning Toad «slept very soundly, and no amount of shaking coul… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Next morning Toad «slept very soundly, and no amount of shaking could rouse him»; the Mole «trudged off to the nearest village, a long way off, for milk and eggs and various necessaries the Toad had, of course, forgotten». Who acts: Toad, amount, Mole. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willo
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car), sentence 30

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Next morning Toad «slept very soundly, and no amount of shaking could rouse him»; the Mole «trudged off to the nearest village, a long way off, for milk and eggs and various necessaries the Toad had, of course, forgotten».

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**Who acts:** Toad, amount, Mole · **What happens:** sleep, rouse, trudge off, forget, amount · **To what, where:** Toad, nearest village, various necessaries, shaking

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toad, amount, Mole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.lesson:30
# text = Next morning Toad «slept very soundly, and no amount of shaking could rouse him»; the Mole «trudged off to the nearest village, a long way off, for milk and eggs and various necessaries the Toad had, of course, forgotten».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	soundly	soundly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	shaking	shaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nmod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	rouse	rouse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	trudged	trudge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part
23	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	off	off	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	necessaries	necessary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=37:conj
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=48:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
43	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	48	advmod	_	_
46	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	fixed	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl:relcl	_	_
49	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** *in a quote* | past | Toad |  |  |  | morning | soundly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rouse** *in a quote* | could | no amount of shaking | Toad |  |  |  |  | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **trudge off** *in a quote* | past | the Mole |  |  | the nearest village |  | for milk and eggs and various necessaries; off *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to village=Destination |
| 4 | **forget** *in a quote* | past · perfect | the Toad | various necessaries *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **amount** *in a quote* |  |  | shaking |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.lesson:30`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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